Syrian government's former employees, including teachers, have been facing an extraordinary situation in territories controlled by the extremist Islamic State group northeast Syria since they have obliged to 'repent' their work with the Syrian state to avoid death and...

BEIRUT- Doubts have been cast over claims that at least nine Lebanese servicemen being held hostage by ISIS militants were relocated to the group’s stronghold in Syria, parties involved in the negotiations told The Daily Star. A source in contact with ISIS militants in Qalamoun said the...

(By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  Fighters of Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, assaulted a prominent activist for lifting the Revolution’s Flag in Bostan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo last Friday.  Hozaifa Dahman, the attacked...

The United Nations Children's Fund has expressed concern over the use of large number of child fighters by armed groups in Yemen.   "Up to a third of combatants in armed groups in conflict-torn Yemen are children...I have been myself held up at checkpoints by children who...